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he was at the state fair. i stood spawn the wet cold sawed in front of the dismally cold 10, he wrote. there was no floor. i had no literature, no coffee, no elected officials. the gop had a live elephant. [laughter] when democrats stopped by and offered george the use of his donkey george jumped at the chance, drove 14 miles in his chevy. a car, not a pickup, and there was the first faithful multiple disaster. by the end of the day the donkey had sent a hoax through the city window, blood all over the car, relieved himself on a nun, been an a little girl. [laughter] >> i have never trusted donkey's since, george wrote. they deserve to be called as ses ses. [applause] >> it wasn't until after i was majority leader that i realize the value of that statement. [laughter and applause] >> he soon created an organization that enabled him to be at the biggest vote-getter in the state, 1956. becoming the first democrat to be sent to washington from south dakota in 22 years. he immediately became a force to be reckoned
he was at the state fair. i stood spawn the wet cold sawed in front of the dismally cold 10, he wrote. there was no floor. i had no literature, no coffee, no elected officials. the gop had a live elephant. [laughter] when democrats stopped by and offered george the use of his donkey george jumped at the chance, drove 14 miles in his chevy. a car, not a pickup, and there was the first faithful multiple disaster. by the end of the day the donkey had sent a hoax through the city window, blood all...
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personnel at the state department. it is clear if you look in context what the vice president was responding to. >> after that testimony, might have conceded that the attack by what has largely been a political attack by republicans by congressman ryan to suggest the president and white house was responsible for assessing security in the diplomatic facility in benghazi and of course opprobrious these kinds of issues in the state department's by security professionals and that was the context of the conversation. >> on a broader context, the argument given by expanded security from the state department is desire to turn over security, that desire to rely on national security is one the administration starts to refuse and withdraw from afghanistan. given the green on blue attacks in afghanistan, does it give the president paz, reconsider whether the sole motivation should be to withdraw troops even though the security impact is on our own people? >> there are a variety of issue areas the question cuts up on. let me go to
personnel at the state department. it is clear if you look in context what the vice president was responding to. >> after that testimony, might have conceded that the attack by what has largely been a political attack by republicans by congressman ryan to suggest the president and white house was responsible for assessing security in the diplomatic facility in benghazi and of course opprobrious these kinds of issues in the state department's by security professionals and that was the...
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welcome to the audience watching us at home, at work on c-span. we are halfway between the home of the baltimore orioles and the washington nationals. i give you greetings from new york, land of the 27 world championships. thank you very much. that was market tested in new york and did much better off we enough. that would be the strongest partisan comments i will make today. many of you know we are currently partnering with nbc news and the wall street journal to told nine battleground states and national polls during the campaign. our partnership with knights of columbus bates to 2008 and during that time we conducted many surveys which tried to get beyond the labels and page-1 headlines. i would like to begin today with the ever changing overview of the presidential campaign which will hopefully set the context for barbara's discussion on our poll work on values. looking at the presidential election if there's one word to characterize this election it is polarization. as we look at the map of the country you are familiar with the divisions betw
welcome to the audience watching us at home, at work on c-span. we are halfway between the home of the baltimore orioles and the washington nationals. i give you greetings from new york, land of the 27 world championships. thank you very much. that was market tested in new york and did much better off we enough. that would be the strongest partisan comments i will make today. many of you know we are currently partnering with nbc news and the wall street journal to told nine battleground states...
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debate preview followed by the debate at 9:00 and your reaction at 10:30 live on c-span2 and c-span radio and c-span.org. >> after an entrepreneur hassina sherjan discusses her education of afghan women and girls. they left the country for the u.s. after the russian invasion. she also started a home accessory business that employs afghans. from the woodrow wilson center this is an hour. >> the director of the program at the wilson center, back to welcome you all to today's meeting, how to protect women and girls when america leaves afghanistan focusing on education. i was coming down the stairs with our speaker, she said the problem is not only protecting girls but also protecting girls and boys and make sure they have access to education this meeting is sponsored by the centers asia program and women's leadership initiati initiative, a new program run by my dear friend and colleague, she is the president of the chair of the initiative and we will be hearing a lot from her because she is a very active person and organized meetings all the time. we actually had a joint meeting a week ago f
debate preview followed by the debate at 9:00 and your reaction at 10:30 live on c-span2 and c-span radio and c-span.org. >> after an entrepreneur hassina sherjan discusses her education of afghan women and girls. they left the country for the u.s. after the russian invasion. she also started a home accessory business that employs afghans. from the woodrow wilson center this is an hour. >> the director of the program at the wilson center, back to welcome you all to today's meeting,...
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are wouldn't say that at all. >> 20 years ago textbooks and the curriculum were silent about religion. thanks to a lot of changes particularly consensus guidelines i talked about teaching about religion snout is in the standards particularly in social studies from. we did a study of state standards a number of years ago and found religion is treated
are wouldn't say that at all. >> 20 years ago textbooks and the curriculum were silent about religion. thanks to a lot of changes particularly consensus guidelines i talked about teaching about religion snout is in the standards particularly in social studies from. we did a study of state standards a number of years ago and found religion is treated